Bookmarklets for text manipulation

When I got an interview with Opera a year ago, I switched from Firefox 2 to Opera 9.5. Initially I thought that the“extensions withdrawal” was going to be hard but after a few days I realized that CoLT was the only one I really missed . Copy Link Text (CoLT) copies any text you select plus the URL where its located. This is great for blogging, saving links for research and answering emails that require a lot of links1.

Enter the Bookmarklets:

One of the reasons I didn’t miss extensions that much was because most services I was using where already bookmarkets (or had one). Bookmarkelts are basically bookmarks that perform an action with the content in your browser window.

Text Select: It grabs the text selected, the page URL and the page title and pop’s up a dialog box with the content you can easily copy. If no text is selected, you will get just the URL and the title.

If you select this very special text on a website and click on the bookmarklet you would get:

All you have to do to save these bookmarklets is grab the underlined name and drop it in you bookmark bar. You can also right click and select save link to bookmarks in some browsers. In Opera, I assign shortcut to each one and just type tc on the URL bar to use it.

I hope somebody find these useful. They are a lifesaver for me.

I usually get a“What (iPod/laptop/phone/camera/service/software) should I get?” email every couple of weeks. I love these emails because it gives me an excuse to figure out what’s going with different products. But you need to go through a lot of reviews and products pages. ↩